The Iliad
By: translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers. Introd. by Gilbert Highet.
Series: Modern Library college editions,; T22
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Achilles (Greek mythology) -- Poetry; Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English
Genres: Poetry.; Translations into English.
Description: The stirring story of the Trojan war and the rage of Achilles. A timeless, powerful poem conveys the horror and the heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as the tale moves to its terrifying, tragic conclusion.
Notes: "Works in English about the Homeric poems": p. xv-xvi.